Welcome to SugarMegs Audio@Terrabyte Station!

An ecosystem of audio streams irrigating the ears of the net.
Last updated 3/7/98 420 AM EST. by DATs the other one!

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You need the RealAudio player to listen to these sounds, and a 28.8 modem or better to listen in real time. The documentation included with the RealPlayer explains how to configure your browser to use RealPlayer to play RealAudio files.

The 'pnm' entries use a download protocol designed for RealAudio. When you use the pnm link (the preferred method of live listening over the net) you can seek within the files, and it generally works pretty good. Our license only allows us to feed 60 pnm feeds at a time, so during peak times you will sometimes get an error something like 'no more connections.

The 'http' link is another method of listening to the files live, but it is not as slick as 'pnm'. You can't seek within the files as easily, and in some cases, you will end up having to download the whole file first before the RealPlayer will start playing the sound. You should only use the 'http' links if the 'pnm' isn't working cause we're too busy.

The 'ftp' links are for you to download the RealAudio files to your local disk and play at your leisure. This is a nice feature if you have a bad network connection and the sound breaks up alot. Also, for the 16k stereo (and other high bandwidth files) this is the only way to get the sounds. But, even if you have a 28.8 modem, you can download the 16k stereo files (it will take a *long* time, about 3-4 times the running time of the set) and play them later, even though your modem would be too slow to listen to them in real time. The trick is to figure out what filename corresponds to the set you want to download. Hold the mouse over the ftp link and the link that shows up has the filename at the end (something like ph12-31-97.ra)

To use the ftp links:

for windows/unix Netscape users, hold the right mouse button down over the link and select "Save Link As..."

for Mac Netscape users, hold the mouse button down over the link for a few seconds and select "Save Link As..."

I would guess that this works for MS Internet Explorer too, but I don't have it so I'm not sure. Can someone confirm this?

SugarMegs connection to the internet is a T1, which is capable of handling about 60 pnm feeds, and that's it. We have to restrict the number of ftp downloads occurring, so that the live feeds work. Only 10 ftp connections are allowed during the day, and 20 late at night and on weekends, so it's *really* hard to get in direct to SugarMegs.

We do have several SugarMegs mirror sites that may be easier to ftp into. They have mostly the 16k high quality stuff that is in demand for people wanting to get.

All of the 5k mono entries are available via anonymous ftp here.
All of the higher bandwidth entries (mostly 16k stereo) are available via anonymous ftp here.
There is a daytime limit of 10 users.

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Having trouble hearing this stuff? Here is some 'real' help. Why is it so hard to ftp files from sugarmegs?

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You can add music to this collection over the net and help build an internet music archive! Did you know that you can encode an Ra file at home (for free) and play it locally without a server?

MindLeftBody is a page of real audio links.

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